{"id":610882,"date":"2020-01-13T14:58:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T14:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/archive\/article\/\/\/matters-9-air-racing"},"modified":"2020-01-16T11:12:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T11:12:16","slug":"matters-9-air-racing","status":"publish","type":"issue_content","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/archive\/article\/september-2019\/20\/matters-9-air-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"Matters 9 Air Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">As F1 mulls the reintroduction of ground-effect design, two new racing series are looking to the skies, with plans for high-speed, wing-to-wing electric plane championships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Air Race E, backed by Airbus, envisions eight planes racing around a three-mile oval at up to 280mph. At the same time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">The aircraft, developed separately by each team, will fly 10 metres from the ground, in front of spectator-filled grandstands \u2013 with a 150m safety margin between people and planes. A prototype is expected to be tested at Cranfield Airport in Bedfordshire later this year, followed by a full championship schedule in 2020.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"pp-media pp-media--thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-media__image\" src=\"https:\/\/motorsport-motorsportmagazine.express.pugpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/173\/2019\/07\/WireFrame8.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial oval racing could be a reality with Air Race E\" \/><figcaption class=\"pp-media__caption\">Aerial oval racing could be a reality with Air Race E<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p3\">Also proposed for next year is the first Airspeeder championship, using machines with eight rotors that can fly at up to 120mph, 20 metres off the ground. A pilotless prototype was unveiled at this year\u2019s Goodwood Festival of Speed, and carried out some test flights. The competition version will be manned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Matt Pearson, the South African entrepreneur behind Airspeeder, says that 10 pilots will compete in races and time-trials. On the safety side, augmented reality technology to provide all-round vision, and anti-collision software is meant to help to prevent any form of mid-air crashes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">In contrast, the Air Race E series uses more conventional-looking aircraft, similar to kerosene-fuelled machines that enter the Reno Air Race and Air Race 1 series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">As with those events, pilots will compete at close quarters, relying on their judgment and responses to avoid other planes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Four teams have already signed up for the new format. the first competitors include Casey Erickson, a female Reno Air Race pilot, a Dutch team made up of university students, and aviation companies from Britain (Condor Aviation) and America (Blue-Beta Racing).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":739,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"issue_decade":[121600],"issue_year":[121825],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/610882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/739"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/610882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621587,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/610882\/revisions\/621587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610882"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=610882"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=610882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}